Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equity is important in that it fights for improvements and fairness in pay and working conditions , and with over 44,000 members competing for probably some 5–7,000 jobs in any given working week , it tries to ensure that the work goes to professionally accredited people , those with training or suitable professional experience . |
| 2 | The Darkfall storm had been building for quite some time , generating itself , growing stronger . |
| 3 | Further readings are more favourable ; the strange cry and the endless sobbing remain in our minds , and it seems that Alice is weeping for far more than she or her unimaginative protector can understand . |
| 4 | ‘ A lot of them write songs with thrashy noise guitars singing about how great it is to kill someone … |
| 5 | By not assigning 9 , but using it as " an octave device " , one could establish as a convention a way of producing a hierarchy of numbers allowing for almost infinite addition in array . |
| 6 | In all then , Telecom would probably have outlaid £14m — allowing for very modest fees on the purchase — before it actually laid one brick , and that is if it got planning permission . |
| 7 | It had been raining for over three hours , and the hide Duncan lay in was filled with water . |
| 8 | Most of the sample group ( 82 per cent ) had been using for over two years before they first sought treatment . |
| 9 | I was using for about three years altogether . |
| 10 | In 1973 there were 21 sixth form colleges in England ; by 1988 there were 104 , catering for over 64,000 pupils . |
| 11 | Another concern we have is that special employment and training measures , ( now catering for over 31,000 people in the North ) , have become a substitute for jobs — a way of reducing the official unemployment statistics and complementing the massive statistical fraud which those figures now represent . |
| 12 | By 1980–1 , the number of CNAA first degree courses in art and design had grown to 196 , catering for over 15,350 students , of whom the great majority were to be found in the four Dip.AD specialist areas of Fine Art , Graphic Design , Three Dimensional Design and Textile and Fashion Design . |
| 13 | Today the skiing industry is worth billions and there are more than three thousand resorts catering for about thirty million skiers across the world . |
| 14 | In the next six years , thirty polytechnics were officially designated and since then they have become the major institutions of higher education within further education , catering for about two-thirds of the full-time , including sandwich , students in advanced further education . |
| 15 | In 1981–82 , courses were running in some twenty centres catering for about 800 trainees ; they attended for about 80 hours , usually on day release , and their programme consisted of training in fundamental skills in four main areas : what are called Instructional Skills ; Counselling and Caring ; Evaluation ; and Core Competencies . |
| 16 | All this is not very encouraging for those who want to see the GCSE as a single simple examination system catering for virtually all school pupils according to their needs . |
| 17 | Four groups will be sampled : adults in private households ; adults with psychosis living in private households ; adults in institutions , catering for mentally ill people ; and adults in other institutions , mainly hostels for homeless people sleeping rough . |
| 18 | Coalport Minerva and Mason 's Ironstone are specialist units catering for very particular types of produce and both are important to the Group 's strategy of developing its valuable brands . |
| 19 | When I was eighteen , about six months before my A levels , I stopped eating for about three months , then every now and then , about every week , I 'd binge really heavily . |
| 20 | My experience in workshops is that people are dying for more honest forms of communication . |
| 21 | Novell Inc has finally produced the big restructuring that it has been planning and ( sort of ) denying for so long and which led to the departure of Tony Scrivens as UK managing director . |
| 22 | But after walking for about fifty yards we came to another thinner wall of barbed wire with a gate in it . |
| 23 | After walking for about 20 minutes he saw two red pinpoints ahead of him , the tail-lights of a car . |
| 24 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 25 | He had been walking for almost four hours . |
| 26 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 27 | An event that has been occurring for only five years before the enactment of the 1986 Act is of a more dubious standing . |
| 28 | Ozone depletion in the northern hemisphere has yet to reach the massive levels experienced over Antarctica , with holes in the ozone layer appearing for relatively short periods and over smaller areas , but this year 's figures show depletions in excess of last year 's record lows [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 29 | The clients expect and understand that quite well now , because it 's been happening for about two or three years . |
| 30 | This is happening for totally different reasons . |